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Job Description:

Substance are able to refer candidates to healthcare schemesm, but don't offer private healthcare.

Technical test required before interview

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We are a research and technology company. We help organisations that do good to think smart and make more of a difference. We work across different sectors and with many types of organisation – charities, social businesses and government. Our core team is made up of highly-experienced social researchers, technologists and programme managers, each with their own specialisms. What we share is an ambition to make organisations that do good have a greater impact.

About the Role

We manage and deliver a range of bespoke development projects for a diverse and expanding range of high profile charities and public service delivery agencies that are focused on assessing the impact of their work and helping to improve its effectiveness. Successful candidates will work on a range of different projects including enhancing and maintaining our own in house applications as well as other commissioned developments and research projects for our various clients.

The successful candidates will work in close collaboration with other members of the development team as well as senior members of the research and consultancy team in order to develop fresh solutions to client needs.

Responsibilities

The successful candidates will be expected to:

Produce clean, semantic, object-oriented code, with the ability to adopt existing coding styles as appropriate in a range of languages such as PHP or JavaScript

Troubleshoot, test and maintain the core product software and databases to ensure optimization and functionality

Plan and develop core functionality and new features to our flagship system.

Participate in peer code reviews

Give technical assistance to front line support

Work with other team members to enhance and evolve existing and new products

Design and document code so other developers can understand and contribute to it

Researching and incorporating 3rd Party products, frameworks and services to enhance our own applications

Take part in Hackathons

Substance is a small, fast-paced business with ambitious growth plans. Everyone in the team works flexibly and has the opportunity to take on responsibilities outside of their role to support the business and the team